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It's much better to learn than to think. By all means, learn and think both, but if you must choose between the two, learn. If you learn and don't think, you are wasting the precious intellect that God endowed to you. However, if you think and don't learn, you are entering uncharted territory; you are drawing conclusions and acting upon things that you have no business drawing conclusions or acting upon. Fortunately, as humans, there never should be a time where we must choose between the two. Still, we do, and this is understandable: thinking comes naturally; learning does not. We can think without ever getting out of our bed in the morning. If we desire to learn, we must seek out knowledge, and that's not something that we can achieve by lying in bed all day.

Despite a person's best intentions, even the most disciplined student of knowledge can never expect to learn everything that there is to learn. With that said, it's important to keep that in mind when dealing with the unknown, it's always acceptable to just admit “I don't know”. It would make much more sense to tell the truth and admit that there are aspects of existence that you don't know much about than to chalk an answer and be wrong. Plus, depending on the situation, a wrong answer can mean the difference between life and death.